Imprisoned While Pregnant, She's Back for Payback novel Chapter 313

Chapter 313 Our True Daughter

Henry’s gaze sharpened upon hearing that. “Tess, did everything we taught you about discipline get swallowed by a dog?”

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Lyra frowned, and Bessie immediately bristled, ready to lash out. Tess, however, reached back and pressed her arm down to stop her.

Tess let out a cold laugh. “Discipline? You mean the kind that breeds liars and twists the truth?”

Her gaze flicked toward Nadine, her lips curving with open mockery.

“Or the kind that raises people with no sense of law or reason, blind and deaf to everything around them?”

Her eyes

slid past Henry and landed on Kylie, who had hurried over at the noise.

Tess lifted her chin. “Besides, ever since I could remember, I spent most of my time with Grandma. Naturally, I never learned your vile rules or your rotten family values.”

Henry’s face turned scarlet with rage. He wanted to explode, but the dignity of an elder restrained him. With nowhere else to vent, he slammed his palm down hard on the nearby coffee table. “You little brat! Enough of this nonsense–how dare you make a scene here!

“Nadine, go fetch the whip from my study. She hurt you before, and today I will make sure she pays you back.”

His wrinkled face tightened, and a cruel gleam flashed in his sharp eyes.

Tess’s stare was icy.

The first thing Henry thought of after calling for the whip wasn’t to discipline her as a father- it was to help Nadine take revenge on her.

A bitter laugh stirred in Tess’s chest. She decided to wait and see Nadine’s little performance.

Sure enough, Nadine’s face paled. She clutched Henry’s arm and pleaded in a trembling voice. “Dad, Tess only hit me because she lost her temper. I’m just your adopted daughter. It’s not a big deal if Tess felt upset and lashed out at me… Please don’t do this!”

Her tone started soft and pitiful, dripping with grievance, then turned anxious as she tried to persuade him.

But her words only enraged Henry further.

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Chapter 313 Our True Daughter

“What adopted daughter? You are the child we chose ourselves. You are our true daughter!”

Kylie chimed in quickly, “That’s right! Tess, who turns against us, doesn’t deserve to be our daughter!”

Nadine lowered her head, a smug look flickering in her eyes as she glanced at Tess. However, Tess was staring straight at her, lips curled into a mocking smile.

Nadine was startled. For no reason, the wounds on her body seemed to ache again. She instinctively stepped back, realizing with dread that Tess was no longer the girl she and the Embers could easily control.

“Are you done talking?”

Tess toyed idly with her fingertips, then looked at them coldly. “Hand over the things Grandma had left behind.”

Henry turned his head away, his voice thundering.

“We already said it at the hospital. You refused to donate blood to Nadine, so you are no longer one of the Embers. Don’t even dream of taking a single thing from this family.”

Tess only arched a brow lazily, as though she had expected it. “Bessie.”

At her call, a tall and imposing woman stepped out from behind her.

Henry and Kylie blinked in surprise, unable to grasp Tess’s move.

Before they could react, Bessie lunged forward and grabbed Henry by the collar. “Hand it over, or we’ll just go in and get it ourselves!”

Lifted by his clothes, Henry felt the heat rush to his face.

Bessie had a strong build, and she was sturdier than most men her age. Holding Henry up was as easy as picking up a scrawny chick.

Shame and fury hit him at once. His face burned red, and his eyes blazed at Tess. “Tess, is this what you’ve become–being friends with lowlifes like these? Tell her to put me down this instant!”

His

angry shouts filled the room. Tess strolled forward at her own pace, shoved him aside with one hand, and then dropped into his seat as if it were hers all along.

Nadine trembled in fear, her heart skipping a beat as Tess sat so close.

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“You…” Her voice was barely audible.

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Tess spared her only a glance before dismissing her entirely.

She raised her eyes toward Kylie. “You. Go get the things.”

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Kylie could not bear Tess’s arrogance and immediately stepped forward, reaching for Bessie’s

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